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Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 26^th Dec 2018, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Wed 26^th Dec 2018, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Tim Hayward and Susie Dent head back to the middle ages to track the story of our changing relationship with our gut, as told through language. Show more

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The Gut Instinct: A Social History

4 - The Disease of Civilisation

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 27^th Dec 2018, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Thu 27^th Dec 2018, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Tim Hayward on modern life, a truly radical cure for constipation; and how indigestion changed political protest forever. Show more

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The Gut Instinct: A Social History

1 - Gut Culture

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 24^th Dec 2018, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Mon 24^th Dec 2018, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Tim Hayward discovers how different cultures - today and back into history - have had very different attitudes to the human gut. Show more

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The Gut Instinct: A Social History

2 - A Window into the Gut

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 25^th Dec 2018, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Tue 25^th Dec 2018, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Tim Hayward peers through a window into the gut, to tell the story of a case that changed medical history. Show more

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The Gut Instinct: A Social History

5 - The Gut Speaks

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 28^th Dec 2018, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Fri 28^th Dec 2018, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Tim Hayward asks what our guts have been trying to tell us. From goblins, demons and angry gods - to a book written by a stomach. Show more

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